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Taranaki Daily News, 19 July 1933, Page 6

It was recently reported that a young Wanganui lady had suffered a lapse of memory as a result of an accident which occwrred to her whilst cycling home from an evening class at the ■ Technical College. She was taken home in a dazed condition, and could give no explanation as to how the accident occurred. Eyewitnesses have now come forward and state that the young lady was knocked off her cycle by a large Alsatian dog. ■ When H.M.S. Neiy Zealand was in the shipbreakers’ hands in 1924 the ships telegraph, hand steering-wheel and bell, were presented to Flock House. These exhibits now. grace the wall of the entrance hall, and are greatly admired. A historic relic that is also,housed at .clock House'is a piece of one of the launches cf the ill-fated H.M.S. Hampshire, which was mined off the Orkney Islands on June 5, 1916. This tragedy was heightened by the fact that Lord Kitchener lost his life in the Hampshire wreck. The New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited, is making ah advance payment of 10d per lb for finest quality butter-fat supplied during June for butter-making. This payment is free of share deduction. The pay-out for finest quality butter-fat supplied for the manufacture of cheese will be lid per lb. The advance payment in the same month last year was 104 d per lb butterfat for butter-making and lied per butter-fat for milk supplied for cheesemaking. , , “Probably no one in this room has ever seen ultramarine paint, said Professor J. Shelley when he addressed the Canterbury College Scientific Society. It is worth its weight in gold. The ult marine paint which is generally us dw made by synthetic means, and lacks toqualities of the genuine colour. The col ours that were used in painting the gr about the made from coloured earths Tune ted moved these colours to be of good pe Sue., which was esseuUal for the value; of masterpieces. A litigant at the Otorohanga Magistrate’s Court on Monday stated in evi . dence that he was not accustomed to clurt procedure. The Magistrate: Well, X i aoousfomea to Court Keen away as long as you can! A short time afterwards, whilst was busily engaged ina noth er c ase to „,a„ appoared at the .^ c » < se lh^, C ’ Y "" room and exclaimed. Excuse m> Lordship, can I rSn is nMtrf ” The Magistrate, inis man ?Xtly aSnufofd fo get his moneys worth here !” An Auckland jeweller says despite the fact that the farmer is a noted grumbler, he is satisfied that there plenty of money JJ 1 the he the lre buying rings During ‘the show week he has St known so many costly rings bought. Many of these, which were thought to be too highly priced an almost unsaleable on times, had been eagerly bought at prices ranging well into double figures, and not only that, costly presents running into a similar amount have fre^ n £ y J?® t purchased. Altogether these things pointed to the fact that every farmer hadn t a mortgage, but the reverse was the cas , and quite a number had long stockings'’ full put away somewhere, which were now and again coming to light on special occasions